"...What can WE learn from this?..."
- Spontaneously, I think we all laughed at first. With disbelief, that is.
- But I really feel sorry for the guy in question, if this is his real answer sheet, unless of course he thinks it is cool to broadcast to the world his usual technique to pass a test.
- But when we all look deeply into this phenomenon, I think we should be aware that this is not a rare thing to happen. It does reflect something of today's young generation, or may of be of we all, for that matter.
- We do pay less attention to things around us.
- We start to lose our ability to see thing as it is. In this case, it is the instruction for the exam. Or, looking deeply, the heart of the matter is the responsibility of a student, that is, to study and be prepared and be ready for an exam and to try your best at reading and answering the exam in question so that your grade might relatively reflect your academic capability comparing to others in the same situation.
- Instead, we have more of a careless generation overall. Careless in how to live a responsible life, a purpose-driven life.
- So, I'l go back to my question at the beginning of this blog:
"...What can WE learn from this?..."
- In the spirit of post-modernism, I'll leave it open for you to answer. Yes, this one is an open-ended question. Don't bother to give me all the Cs for your answer. No, I won't fail you if you do. I don't have the authority to do so. But may be you would only fail yourself, the same way this young gentleman just did.
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From: http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1730017Check out this exam my friend took the other week.100 question True/False Communications FinalHis professor sent him an e-mail the following day:
Dear Michael,
Every year I attempt to boost my students' final grades by giving them this relatively simple exam consisting of 100 True/False questions from only 3 chapters of material. For the past 20 years that I have taught Intro Communications 101 at this institution I have never once seen someone score below a 65 on this exam. Consequently, your score of a zero is the first in history and ultimately brought the entire class average down a whole 8 points.
There were two possible answer choices: A (True) and B (False). You chose C for all 100 questions in an obvious attempt to get lucky with a least a quarter of the answers. It's as if you didn't look at a single question. Unfortunately, this brings your final grade in this class to failing. See you next year!
May God have mercy on your soul.
Sincerely,
Professor William Turner
P.S. If all else fails, go with B from now on.
B is the new C
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